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Post by biscuit on Oct 8, 2008 13:35:30 GMT -5
I have noticed the past few weeks of the road kill and where the animails are crossing the road. Corners, hedge rows meadow strips seems to be hot spots.
What do we learn from this happening?
Sometimes I wonder what the critters are doing there?
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Post by g3trappernc on Oct 8, 2008 16:31:44 GMT -5
We learn that they ain't fast enough to get across the road.....
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Post by blackettle on Oct 8, 2008 20:34:18 GMT -5
following the food/useing the cover/transition zones
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Post by pigtrapper07 on Oct 9, 2008 3:29:46 GMT -5
The learning curve may be short. Before long all them road kills will be in the back of my truck as well as every other trapper in the area. I think i heard some this sayin on some pro trapper video "Never to flat to ride in my truck" or something like that I think. Either way I'll be picking up what I can and have even got the wife convenced to at least stop and kick them off the edge of he road and call me so I can get there quick. GOOD PICKIN.
PIG.
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Post by carolinafoxer on Oct 9, 2008 6:08:49 GMT -5
Last year, the first beaver of the season was a roadkill that went 52 inches...
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Post by rye on Oct 9, 2008 7:12:11 GMT -5
Pig,... man I thought I was bad in subtley getting her to identify them as we go by.. let alone pulling over, and bumping them off for me to get! What can we learn? that medians on highway 70 would be a great location for possum and coon buckets  Also makes for a fast trap line check.. if it were for the thieves and anti's! |
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Post by northof50 on Oct 9, 2008 19:44:00 GMT -5
Here's a story; was at our provincial trappers meeting and coming home the next day with the wife. Snowed that night 3 inches, Feb time, 25 trappers ahead of me already left. A what do I see in my rear view mirror, after we past a blob of snow in the shoulder, but fur, coyote fur. 180 and back I go.... only to have my wife announce that my mother is to ride in the car in 30 minutes, and where was I to put MR. 50 pound yote( nice long silver tipped SSL WESTERN $ 360 type). Since the trunk was full of winning from the convention, large Ford Taurus car. No problem put the wet snowy yote on the pull tobaggon in the back seat. Well there was almost one dead on in and one live-one out the doors on the road. Had to tell her the fur buyer was only 1/2 mile away, drove into his yard , he could not believe it where I found it ( since he had driven by it 3 times that day). Offered $ 40 for it and took it. sorta of, made him go pay the wife with the cold hard cash.(that was a tank of gas). Ever since that I have been allowed to pick up DOR's (with her presence).
THAT WHAT I HAVE LEARNED
Off season DOR's, is another matter but they are usually covered under scientific permits since most of the money is in the flea collections tax receipts.
DOR major killing mornings are when the ground fog hangs in from the roadside ditch water around her with no wind.
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Post by Bottomline on Oct 9, 2008 21:52:11 GMT -5
It's called "Dispersal". The young are moving on to find their "own" ground. As the weather gets coller at nights, they will really be on the move. And......I'm almost ready.  |
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Post by biscuit on Oct 10, 2008 19:15:51 GMT -5
I found a BIG bo coon this am, he was crossing about 2/3 the way down fresh cut hat fileld on one side and a pasture on the other. No feeders, on swags in the land scape, no nothing in the way of a "critter trail" around. The field that I speak of probaly 800yd long both sides of the road. Where was he going/ doing there?
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Post by blackettle on Oct 10, 2008 22:22:36 GMT -5
In a fresh cut field there would be plenyt of grasshoppers/crickets(incects) and rodents displaced.Ican rember snakeing hickory logs out of a bottom for firewood and i would have a trench at the end of the day anmd would see fox/cat and coon tracks following the trench,fresh dirt is what i think got there attention(Ihave since used this knowledge to my advantadge come trapping season)a small log and a 4x4truck/atv or tractor and a little imagation!!!!!....blackettle
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Post by rye on Oct 28, 2008 8:29:55 GMT -5
Learned that there is a good fur crossing in Nash Co. on the 95. there were five coons and a fox with in 20 yards of each other on that spot last week when I went by.
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Post by biscuit on Oct 28, 2008 8:45:48 GMT -5
Sounds like you need to get some steel in the ground there.
On a "HOT" place like can you overload it with traps?
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Post by rye on Oct 28, 2008 8:46:59 GMT -5
I would but I live in Craven and thats a two hour drive to check |
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Post by lostyournoodle1 on Oct 28, 2008 10:10:35 GMT -5
DURING THE DISPERSAL THEY ALSO USE ROADS AS A DISPERSAL ROUTE. WATCH THE ROADS FROM HERE ON OUT AS YOU WILL SEE MORE FOX, COON, SKUNKS, AND GRINNERS THAN USUAL. I KNOW THERE ARE ALOT MORE AROUND HERE. GIVES ME GOOD INDICATION ON WHERE TO ASK FOR PERMISSION.
THERE ARE ALOT MORE DEER ON THE ROAD AROUND HERE, BUT THATS NOT THE DISPERSAL THAT A WHOLE NOTHER CAN OF WORMS!LOL
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Post by biscuit on Oct 28, 2008 15:31:03 GMT -5
4 more deer on the road, that Durango is tuff!
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Also makes for a fast trap line check.. if it were for the thieves and anti's!
